Word: granting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...rent control board voted unanimously to grant Harvard the permits necessary under a statute designed to protect the city's house stock after University lawyers argued that Harvard had created new low and moderate income in housing in areas surrounding the campus in recent years...
...carting suitcases, Harris was soon drafted and out at Fort Hood, Texas, 123rd Maintenance Battalion. After two years with a clean record in the Army, his company commander agreed to write him a letter of recommendation, vouching for his character and suggesting that the CRR grant him his degree...
While the CRR scrutinized his army record, Harris returned to Cambridge. His senior tutor took him aside and advised him to apologize to the committee so it would grant his request. "He tried to persuade me basically to crawl," Harris says. He refused...
...years later, when she had given up on social work and wound up teaching in the Boston public school system, she received a letter from the CRR. It said the University might grant her a degree if she wrote them a letter, outlining in detail her activities since leaving Harvard and showing the CRR that she had been conducting herself in a way that indicated "good character." She did, and received her degree...
...five-member Rent Board will probably vote on whether to grant Harvard the "removal permit" necessary to remove the four-story brick apartment building from the rental market...